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you want something in life, go get it. i'm living proof of it. i have this conversation in the courtroom the other day with a black deputy, black lawyer and black defendant. laura: america now has a choice, submit to the racial arsonists on the left or take our country back. that is all-time we have left, greg gutfeld is next. jillian: they had enough. every member of portland's arrived in full team resigned after a year of nearly nonstop violence and vandalism and now tensions are rising yet again in another riot ravaged city where the national guard is on standby. neil: republicans have their chance to grill secretary mayorkas about why the white house won't visit the border. jillian: love of country pastor
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generations, the first salute between a navy grad and his grandfather. "fox and friends first" starts right now. ♪♪ neil: your first, san francisco second, a beautiful day in the northeast and another one today but especially in the southwest, heat. jillian: beautiful, isn't it at this hour. todd: the lights are nice. you are watching "fox and friends first" on friday morning. you don't want to see that. jillian: let's begin with this, two cities on edge. officers tasked with responding to violent riots resigned. neil: up as braces for unrest following the recent police
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shooting death of a black man. jackie ibanez joins us with more. >> reporter: all 50 portland officers that make up the rapid response team have had enough. they voted unanimously to resign from voluntary positions in response to the recent indictment of one of their own. >> we as prosecutors ask for a mechanism for accountability, no legal justification existed for officer but worth's deployment of force. >> reporter: corey but worth allegedly assaulted a photographer with his baton last august, the portland police association said unfortunately this public servant has been caught in the crossfire of an agenda driven city leaders in a politicized criminal justice system. portland has seen wave after wave of protests and riots following the murder of george floyd in minneapolis, the city sought right-center that time
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portland police say they made 1000 arrests. the violence has continued forcing the portland police union to relocated headquarters as it has become a target for vandalism and arson. 100 national guard members are on standby in case of unrest in minneapolis, the city has experienced protests and looting since the shooting of woodson slip, deputies shot him after he allegedly fired again. this was pushed further in disarray after woman was killed when a driver rabbit suv into a group of protesters, 35-year-old nicholas krause is charged with second-degree murder, prosecutors say he admitted to driving into the crowd. after the 100 national guard members authorities in minneapolis say the troops are not currently in the city but are prepared to respond if needed. neil: guns at protesters, agreed to a plea deal, mark across the
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pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault, his wife pleading guilty to harassment, both agreed to give up the guns used in that incident and pay fines, $2,700 in total, more serious charges were dropped as part of the deal. custody after going on a shooting spree. at least one person has died and a dozen others injured. police say the suspect opens fire at eight locations starting yesterday morning. no word on a possible motive for the rampage. we will keep you updated with more details. todd: relatives of the south carolina mother and son shot and killed outside their home revealing one of the victims received threats. >> reporter: it was a credible threat. i notified someone. maybe i made a mistake. neil: andy palmer, killed on
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june 7th, paul was charged with boating under the influence, the crash kills mallory beach, whose relatives and crash survivors reportedly provided dna in connection with the murders. gop lawmakers demand answers from the biden administration about the southern border crisis. jillian: douglas later has more as alejandra mayorkas goes to bat with republicans on capitol hill. >> reporter: house republicans pressing the biden administration for more information after this politico report indicating $2 billion or more has been diverted from other health initiatives including covid response to deal with the border crisis and the unaccompanied children, with no end insight to that crisis the department, secretary of
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homeland security faced a grilling on capitol hill over the biden administration's immigration policies, border policies and the fact that vice president kamala harris who was tasked with dealing with this has yet to visit the border. >> does it make sense for the leader of the free world to see what is going on at the border? >> the secretary of homeland security, it is my responsibility to manage the border. at the direction of the president and vice president. i visited the border on multiple occasions. the vice president served as the attorney general of the border states, california, she is quite familiar with the situation on the border. >> she has not been there. >> reporter: the vp traveled to mexico, central america to address the root causes of the crisis. there are bipartisan calls to head to a border state and see what is happening firsthand. >> all we can do is invite the
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vice president and hopefully she will come down on that. >> reporter: the problem in the end won't be good. >> reporter: coming up you will hear from florida sheriff wayne iv about the challenges so many states are facing because of this crisis. neil: thank you very much. jillian: congressman byron donald says the biden administration is letting the border crisis spiral and he says on purpose. >> let's be perfectly clear, the president and his team are doing this on purpose. this is not a mistake. he doesn't have dementia. he fully knows, this is why he won't go to the border and kamala harris won't go to the border, they are doing this on purpose because if border security is completely overwhelmed they get to come
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with their next plan which is to wipe out immigration law while the cartels make billions of dollars trafficking people and fentanyl into the united states every day. this is a travesty not just for the southern border but for the country. jillian: the white house insists vice president kamala harris is focused on getting to the root cause of the migrant surgeon the vice president says she does plan to visit the border but has not specified when. in a secret february 2020 teleconference top international scientists reportedly discussed how covid could have started in a lab. doctor anthony fauci recalls the meeting saying, quote, i remember very well we decide on the call the situation needed to be looked at carefully. it was a productive back-and-forth conversation where some of the call felt it could possibly be an engineered virus. the group reportedly agree the information they shared should be kept in total confidence and
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not shared until they agreed on next steps as the chinese epidemiologist says the united states should be the focus in the next phase of the investigation, the doctor saying the us was slow to test people in the early stages of the outbreak. todd: governor ron desantis pardoning floridians punished for covid violations. >> anyone currently charged or prosecuted for any nonviolent offense related to covid restrictions in these emergency orders, we got to stop that, let's focus on the real criminals. neil: two jim owners at a board meeting thanked desantis for his efforts to restore their lives after they were arrested for not abiding by local mask mandates. jillian: simon manual will not be defending her freestyle crown, she failed to make the final heat by one place at the us trials in omaha last night.
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still has a shot at tokyo this weekend. an event in which she holds the american record. todd: the arizona wild welcomes them back with a thrilling walk off. >> left field, to san diego. todd: san diego hitting not one but 2 home runs in the ninth inning including that walkoff, a 6-game win streak, they did, is there anything more thrilling? jillian: there's not. todd: father's day weekend, padres. jillian: a conversion to win the game. todd: the stanley cup playoff overtime goal. clinching moments. jillian: it is 10 minutes after the hour.
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california district claiming to promote unity when producing critical race theory and classrooms, assemblyman warns those lessons will make the school more divisive. he joined us next. todd: a utah teen with down syndrome devastated after realizing she was left out virtually leading team's yearbook photo. ♪♪
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famous baldwin brothers. opponents making a big deal about nothing. what is your response? >> in one who looks at the documents being discussed by the school district or other school districts around the country it is clear and obvious what is going on. they want students to believe that race is the most important characteristic, not achievement or any other factor in your life but race. that kind of philosophy, teaching kids you are either an oppressor if you belong to a certain race or a victim if you belong to another certain race, that sows division and is not going to help create a more united society whatsoever. laura: a statement from the solana beach school board in their equity policy which passed last night, quote, in order to eradicate institutional racism
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or bias of any kind industry shall identify and correct any negative cultural biases as was practices, policies and institutional barriers that negatively influence learning. basically saying crt is necessary to successfully teach core subjects. that is the crux of that. your response to that argument? >> that school district doesn't have any racial incidents at all. we are talking about an elementary school. they keep talking about institutional racism. what do you mean by that? no one could answer what that means. we elected a black man president twice, we elected a black woman to be vice president. the idea that our institutions practice racism on a regular basis is a bizarre conspiracy theories that doesn't have evidence to support it. laura: are enough parents out
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there that aren't watching fox aware of what is going on or is this a problem not enough people are aware of? >> we are finding most parents have no clue this is going on, most school board members who promote this are union backed school board members and tend to be more to the left of your average parent in the district but we are organizing them. i see parents organizing all over the country against this and finally we are seeing parents become active. todd: how can we make sure that our classrooms are filled with the quality which is a lot of land necessary goal but not filled with marxism? >> we can teach about the great accomplishments of all people regardless of race and we are, we have been for years and we should not ignore the good, the bad and the ugly of our past history and never have.
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we teach about slavery and the evils of slavery. i don't know if i accept the argument that we are ignoring the bad parts of american history to begin with. laura: i argue my own position that we need to raise the educational level of black and brown students and that would solve a lot of problems, not tearing down education, we appreciate your time this morning. jillian: 18 minutes after the hour. and indianapolis teen shot and killed on his way to the basketball court. 's principal says that shouldn't be a death sentence. she joins us live with her call for the violence to stop. plus. >> because he chose to exercise his right not to take the vaccine he would have to give up some of his lead. jillian: parents of west point cadets say their children are facing retaliation for choosing not to get vaccinated. hear from them coming up.
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get started with a great offer, and ask how you can add comcast business securityedge. plus, for a limited time,ask how to get a $500 prepaid card when you upgrade. call today. neil: the supreme court rejected a republican bid to challenge obamacare, stating challengers have no legal standing to file their lawsuit, marks the third time since 2010 an excellent. former president obama tweeting this reaffirms what we've no loan to be true, the affordable care act is here to stay. the high court sides with a foster care agency that refused to place foster kids with same-sex couples. the agency and the contract suspended in 2018 for their policies even though no same-sex
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couples looked to become foster parents but the justices ruled unanimously the city violated the organization's first amendment rights. jillian: a tragic loss and indianapolis as a 15-year-old walking on the street with his younger brother to go play basketball when someone shot him from a passing car. his school principal joins me. sorry to have you want to talk about this. this is devastating to your community. 15-year-old shot and killed on the street going to play basketball. he was going to be a sophomore, was attending the program this summer. talk about how devastating your community must be over this loss. change it is always devastating when you lose a child little over 15-year-old child who was doing everything right, going to summer school, walking with his brother to play basketball. the communities devastated, our
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school families devastated and we are tired of seeing young innocent lives lost the simplest violence. jillian: as of may 30th the same time. go in 2020 there were 69 is your, 98, six and under the age of 18 years old. when you see that number that is devastating. you wanted to talk about different obstacles families and children in certain communities particularly this one faced, what are they? >> we are in an area of indianapolis on the far east side of the with poverty comes a lot of challenges so having suffered serious trauma like those who witnessed him being guns down in the streets. there is a great lack of resources and opportunities when businesses, there aren't safe places for younger people to gather. when you drive through the
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community, little league games, we don't have those resources at this time. >> how was he is a student. >> he recognized the mission that was put out. and recognized education is the ticket to the future and he was a nice boy and a big loss to the community. jillian: you are trying to build a community center for kids to go with indoor activities, what can those who are watching do to help? >> please reach out to us at the leadership academy. our ceo has done an amazing job with philanthropy, looking for someone willing to partner with
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us or people and recognize these young lives can be saved and turn around, they can become productive members of society and make the community better, you can reach out to us online, we are really interested. come play basketball call, swim, focus on the things that are important, academics and getting to the next level. jillian: do it for the others who did not deserve to lose their lives at such a young age, the world is less without them. thanks for talking to us about this, appreciate it. kristen: horrible story. 26 after the hour. boston's acting mayor does not support the death penalty for the boston marathon bomber. jillian: aurvivor of the attack, concerned about the terrorists someday getting out, joining us next.
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jillian: breaking overnight is real hits gaza with 4 airstrikes following hamas arson attacks, rockets hitting militant facilities and strongholds. it is unclear if anyone was hurt or killed by the strike. israeli military officials say the strikes were in response to hamas's incendiary balloons that lit several fires across southern israel. it is the second time israel has launched airstrikes on hamas since last month's cease-fire. north korean officials prepare for dialogue and confrontation with the us. this comes days after g7 countries including the us called on the rogue regime to abandon its nuclear program and return to the negotiating table. the biden administrative's previous attempts (the communications with north korea was met with no response. todd: the boston mayor proclaimed her opposition to the death penalty for boston marathon bomber joe car sign i
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have -- to reinstate capital punishment in that case. joining us is boston marathon bombing survivor here's a tweet from the mayor that says i do not support the death penalty for anybody, what is your reaction when you see this? >> it is embarrassing, not even an elected official. she is appointed, not even a male. it is disgusting. i wonder where she was eight years ago when we were in our hospital beds fighting for our lives. the tragedy in the city of boston. todd: what message does the
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acting mayor's position give you? >> nothing because she wasn't elected to be the mayor. just trying to make a name for herself. it is pretty disgusting. i am a victim, i am a survivor blown up by a bomb. she is just a political person trying to make a name for herself. steve: mind people of the terror this guy and his brother wreaked on the city. i covered this story, i was in boston on a friday when djokhar tsarnaev was apprehended and there was a feeling that i will never forget. that was the good day, the monday was a horrific day. remind people of that day. >> it was the scariest day of my life and my family's life,
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getting a phone call from the city of boston supporting a friend of mine from the boston marathon, locked down the city. people walked miles and miles to get out of the city and shutdown the devastation. it was a ghost town, people were petrified. todd: the city of boston, state of massachusetts, extremely liberal cities, is this what the people of boston, massachusetts want? djokhar tsarnaev not to be put to death but sit in a prison cell the rest of his life? >> i think the majority of people think he should be put to death and fast, stop paying for him. most people i talk to feel that way. i would love it if i could
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guarantee he would sit in jail and wrought forever. the state of massachusetts use taxpayer dollars for abortion to kill innocent babies but not to call criminals and murderers who mutilated 17 men and women, 265 injured people and we couldn't put this guy to death, but support planned parenthood, disgusting. todd: do you think djokhar tsarnaev is ultimately put to death for what he did on that fateful monday in april of 2013? >> i pray he does. i do. i think he should be put to rest. todd: please finish your thought. >> my son knows there's no way
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he will never get out the way policies are changing. todd: appreciate your time, david country should never forget, horrible day and you're living with the scars the rest of your life. >> a federal holiday, one congresswoman will use the millstone for more ambitious policy changes. juneteenth and reparations, calling to end police violence, the war on drugs and accuses the us of engaging in housing and education apartheid. she said it is time to, quote, teach the truth about white supremacy and prioritize black liberation in its totality. todd: illinois father taking a stand against critical race theory.
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>> personally -- how do i do that? todd: crt is a complete reversal of martin luther king jr.'s message of touching an individual by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. is mark levin with the origins of crt. >> critical race theory is a marxist based ideology, not about race but destroying the existing facility using race, using gender, using the climate, using immigration, whatever it is, developed by marxists in berlin, some became tenured professors, if you believe in a color blind society or a sellout, part of the white
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supremacy dominance society. neil: are taking measures to ban could of the race theory. jillian: kim reynolds supporting law enforcement after signing a back the blue act. establishing qualified immunity would protect officers and state employees. an aggravated misdemeanor charge for interference with border patrol. >> grandparent with alzheimer's, it gives me the chills. giving his grandson the first salute, nicholas allen joined the navy, 13 years of service when our learned his grandfather couldn't attend his graduation he decided to go to him. this gets me choked up. adding his grandfather stood taller than he has seen in years. 37 after the hour.
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rumors swirl around matthew mcconaughey's to run, does that mean he has support? not quite. >> abutting golf pro in the family, carley shimkus live with those trending headlines. todd: anchor reads on the ally. the super 6 apps, a chance to win 10,$000, predict 6 outcomes on the super 6 quiz show, topics, we should note the producers did their job. ♪♪
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jillian: texas senator ted cruz said he hopes matthew mcconaughey doesn't run for
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texas governor because he would be a formidable candidate. todd: shimkus here with the latest. interesting and telling. >> should matthew mcconnaughhay run for texas governor or shouldn't he? texas senator ted cruz weighed in on that yesterday. >> matthew mcconaughey is considering running for governor. would he be a formidable candidate for greg abbott? >> undoubtedly. i hope he decides not to run. he is a movie star, a movie star can be a formidable candidate on the ballot and i hope that doesn't happen. jillian: the nicest we are politicians that you do not have my endorsement. senator cruz says governor abbott is a mentor, he doesn't want to thank you movie star to win the election, matthew mcconaughey to decide, what
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we've been talking about for a while. >> matthew mcconaughey is not really upsetting either of the major parties. seems levelheaded and all the other stuff about being good-looking which i can't comment on. jillian: if you are in hollywood - go to that point, never envisioned a career politics, 47% of people want him to run. carley: they are in the same vein, political affiliation, he may be more conservative, the rock more liberal, he did endorse president biden but they are in the moderate lane. todd: i am hoping this was an oversight and nothing purposeful.school is saying it
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was an oversight. the family of the utah teenager with down syndrome was surprised to discover she was not included in her cheerleading squad's high school yearbook picture. morgan arnold, the team's manager, was devastated by the news. school officials apologized saying we are deeply saddened by the mistake that was made. apologies have been made to the family, we sincerely apologize to others impacted by this error. they say it was a mistake the one photo was taken with her, one without her. they are looking into why the picture without her was used. jillian: or why it was taken in the first place. carley: sad to hear she was so sad, i'm sure she was excited to open the yearbook and see her picture and it wasn't there. jillian: this kid. carley: you are an incredible golfer and so is rhonda santos's
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3-year-old son. we will play that. >> reporter: daddy, look what i got. >> oh wow. carley: the governor posted that saying 3 years old and has a better swing than his old man. neil: so much you can learn from that, how he doesn't swing, right down the middle. carley: i like his little club. they have 3-year-old clubs. jillian: we introduce you to someone speaking out about limited capacity at graduation ceremonies. they packed madison square garden. >> being split into 6 separate ceremonies to attract -- there's no one to listen.
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todd: his school was listening, he joins us with an important update after the break, don't want to miss it.
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charge of what is going on and someone else is not pulling the strings because that is what it looks like. todd: jackson and 13 other gop congress and sent a letter to biden outlining several public instances of what they believed the mental impairment, they ask that he immediately submit to the cognitive exam. west point cadets not vaccinated facing stricter, there's no mandate requiring the covid vaccine at west point or in the military as a whole but the few who are not vaccinated say they are facing more restrictions now than during the height of the pandemic. the parent of a west point cadets as the school is punishing her son for not being vaccinated even though he has been tested and has the antibodies. >> because he's chosen to exercise his right not to take the vaccine that he would be called susceptible status and would have to submit to restriction of movement through the summer which meant he had to give up his lead. todd: the cadets have to give up tweet 7 days for quarantine, not
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allowed to leave the campus. jillian: new york city department of education loosened its guidelines allowing full capacity for outdoor ceremonies following a segment last friday on the issue. >> we are being split into 6 separate ceremonies, people don't want to go to graduation, trying to attract someone's attention but no one out here to listen. jillian: joining us to react his student body president robert malleyare, thank you for joining us again. >> thank you for having me. i have a positive update. jillian: the governor did loosen the restrictions in new york earlier this week. do you think this was a result of the governor loosening restrictions at the school saying we are able to do this, do you think your school listens to what you had to say and took it to heart? >> i think it was a combination of both.
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my school is supportive of me and my fellow students. we want more people at each one so we feel more with our friends. when we got the news we were allowed by the governor to do that we were very happy the school made the change. jillian: as a last friday you were set to have 6 different ceremonies over two days. what is the situation now? >> ceremonies over two days. jillian: you will have more people you are able to celebrate your graduation with. you felt social distance and more masks. >> he is we do. jillian: how do you feel about that? >> everyone feels excited because that is the way it was originally. we are happy about that when we heard that. so, no, not at all.
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we understood our graduation may not look normal because this is not a normal year to graduate. we were very content with having a graduation that was split reasonably and that is how we still feel about it. jillian: tell me how you and your friends feel about perhaps a lesson you have learned through this. last week you said you didn't feel anyone was listening to you, high school students, especially students of your age group were lost in the mix, that is what you felt like and you finally decided i had enough, i want to graduate and have is the memorable, we've been separated so long, you learn something from this? >> we definitely did learn something from this. along with joy, the second most common emotion i heard from my fellow students was shock that something actually changed when we spoke up. we made a tangible impact on a
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policy that was not treating us right. the lesson is it is good to speak your mind. never think something is too far out of your reach to change and someone is always listening and thank you so much for having me last time and thank you for this time. jillian: you are the student body president, can't wait to see what you do in the future, seem like a smart kid with everything going for you so enjoy your graduation and give us an update and let us know how it goes. >> really appreciate you having me on. neil: get ready for 10 years from now to have a kid on to discuss things, he is definitely going to be one of those. jillian: to be in high school and learn such a powerful lesson and go in a positive direction is so important. todd: they were on the side of right here. you question how the thing happened in the first place. where they paying attention to the way the theme has been
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going, opening up, rounding third base at this point but good for him, good for standing up. that it has a bright future. jillian: good for the school for listening. we've got a big second hour of "fox and friends first" on deck. todd: congresswoman nancy mase, a huge day at the supreme court where that kid, robert, will be someday. wesley hunt joining us live, do not go anywhere. ♪♪ everybody working to the man ♪♪ everybody working for the weekend ♪♪
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lawrence: they've had enough. every member of portland's right consulting resides, the stunning move after a year of nonstop
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violence and vandalism intentions rising again in another right ravaged city where the national guard is standing by. >> the border crisis take center stage on capitol hill but republicans have the chance to grill dhs secretary mayorkas about why the white house won't visit the border. ♪♪ were so gallantly streaming. todd: islander fans doing it again. we will show you the powerful and patriotic women as "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪♪ jillian: friday night. todd: i did the dance and last friday night, more or less.

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